Pretty Babies Grow Up Ugly and Other Old-Time Beliefs

by Clyde Roy Pack

Before good health care and decent schools reached the hollows of Eastern Kentucky, families struggled to make sense of the world around them. When a baby was born or a mother fell ill, families could do little but hope and pray and look for signs. They relied on old superstitions and a deep Christian faith to help them make sense of a world they didn't understand and couldn't control. Illustrated with classic cartoons from Clyde Roy Pack's "Poison...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615683371
• ISBN13: 9780615683379
• Release Date: August 2012
• Publisher: Story/ATOM Publishing
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.3" x 5.0"